The GEWAMED Project

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The GEWAMED Project

• Mainstreaming Gender Dimensions into Water
  Resources Development and Management in the
  Mediterranean Region
• By
• Juan Antonio Sagardoy Alonso
• GEWAMED Project Manager
• CIHEAM-MAI-Bari, Italy
• Email Sagardoy_at_iamb.it

WASAMED Conference,MAI-Bari, 14-17 February
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The mission of GEWAMED

• To build and disseminate an extensive knowledge
  base for mainstreaming gender dimensions into
  IWRM in the Mediterranean Region.

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How the GEWAMED project works?

• It is a Coordinated Action (CA)
• Financed by the INCO Programme of the EC
• Within the 6th Framework Research Programme
• Addressed to the Mediterranean Region
• Coordinated Actions promote
• New knowledge through networking,
• Exchange of information and sinthesize knowledge
• Act as a forum for discussion
• Disseminate knowledge.
• The GEWAMED project has started on 15 February
  2006 with a duration of 4 years.

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Why a project like GEWAMED ?

• The GEWAMED is to some extend the response to a
  SSA Project called INGEDI (108 000 ) undertaken
  in 2004.
• The INGEDI project identified the following
  major gender issues
• lack of coordination mechanisms among relevant
  institutions and related bodies
• lack of institutional support for information
  dissemination.
• lack of coordination among women programmes.
• insufficient knowledge among men and women about
  their own rights.

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Why a project like GEWAMED ?

• Scarce access to information and technology
  (particularly in the sanitation area).
• limited political commitment in integrating
  gender dimensions in water-related policies,
  legislations and programmes.
• few initiatives undertaken to ensure womens
  participation in water-related decision-making.
• lack of skills and knowledge in promoting gender
  mainstreaming in integrated water resources
  management.

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INGEDI Recommendations

• Establishment of a Mediterranean network to be
  interlinked with national ones.
• develop information and communication strategies.
  
• develop a national agenda for mainstreaming of
  gender issues in water resources.
• undertake national seminars and workshops with
  women associations and government agencies.

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INGEDI Recommendations

• provide information at all levels addressing
  issues on water and sanitation, and risk
  assessment.
• capacity building on gender analysis and
  participatory tools in water resources
  management.
• sensitise policy-makers on the importance of
  integrating a gender perspective in integrated
  water resources management.

The GEWAMED Project is a partial response to
these recommendations
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GEWAMED objectives

• Building a national and regional shared knowledge
  base on gender issues, policies, actions and
  measures to support gender mainstreaming in all
  processes related to IWRM.
• Enhance the cooperation and dialogue among
  Mediterranean countries but also within each
  country.
• Contribute to the adoption of national policies
  and other related instruments for mainstreaming
  gender dimensions in IWRM.

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Main activities undertaken
Related to Strategic Objective 1 Building a
national and regional shared knowledge base

• Establishment of a Regional Internet web site
  containing a structured Data Base with
  gender-water related information.
• www. Gewamed. net
• Establishment of national web sites in at least 6
  South-East Mediterranean Region (SEMR) countries
• The following national websites are being
  established Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon,
  Syria, Palestine and Tunisia.
• Sections dedicated to GEWAMED activities are
  established in the partners of France, Greece,
  Italy, Cyprus
• Proposal for gender indicators for monitoring
  gender mainstreaming into water resources
  management.

SEMR countries are Algeria, Egypt, Jordan,
Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and
Turkey.
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Main activities undertaken
Related to Strategic Objective 2 Enhance the
cooperation and dialogue at regional and national
level

• Organization of Regional Workshops
• 1.       Regional kick off workshop (February
  2006),
• 2.       Mainstreaming a gender dimension in
  water management for food security and food
  safety (March 2007),
• 3.       Mainstreaming a Gender Dimension in
  Water Management for Rural Development (February
  2008 ).
•   and one International Conference that will be
  held at the end of project life (2009)
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Main activities undertaken
Related to Strategic Objective 2 Enhance the
cooperation and dialogue at regional and national
level

• Role of Women in Water Resources
• Management, with Focus on Irrigated
• Agriculture in the Middle East and
• North Africa Countries, organised by
• lInstitut Agronomique de Tunisie (INAT)
• and FAO, 18 to 20 April 2006.
• Women, Environment and Sustainable Development,
  organised by the Andalusia Women Institute (AWI)
  8 and 9 June 2006, in Islatilla Huelva, Spain.
• IWRM Science Communication for Impact
  Workshop-cum-Training, 20 to 22 June 2006.
• Planning Workshop on Gender Mainstreaming in IWRM
  in the Arab Region, 4-6 July 2006 in the UN-House
  of Beirut, Lebanon.

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Main activities undertaken
Related to Strategic Objective 2 Enhance the
cooperation and dialogue at regional and national
level

•   Euro-Mediterranean Non-Governmental Platform,
  from 12 to 14 July 2006 in Paris, France.
• Training Programme on Gender Role in Extension
  and Water Awareness 7 21 September 2006 in
  Amman, Jordan.
•  Water Cooperation Session in Mediterranean
  River Basins, 5th of November 2006 in Athens,
  Greece.
• 6th Convention of the Women of the Earth, 14th
  of November 2006, in Rome, Italy.
• Gender special session onMainstreaming
  Gender in IWRM Monitoring and Evaluation was
  organised by GEWAMED and Gender and Water
  Alliance in the occasion of the 3rd Arab Water
  Regional Conference Research Advancement in
  Managing Limited Water Resources, in Cairo,
  Egypt, from 9 to 11 December 2006.

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Main activities undertaken
Related to Strategic Objective 2 Enhance the
cooperation and dialogue at regional and national
level

• GEWAMED project is interacting with other EU
  Research projects dealing with water resources
  that also focus on information, knowledge
  management to promote coordination and exchange
  of experiences
• I INECO
• WADI
• MELIA
• AQUASTRESS
• NOSTRUM
• and International Org.s like
• FAO,
• IFAD
• GWA

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Main activities
Related to Strategic Objective 3 Contribute to
the adoption of gender national policies and
other related instruments.

• Undertake and organize national seminars in the
  SEMR countries to sensitise politicians and
  decision-makers on gender issues.
• Preparation of plans for using and disseminating
  the knowledge generated by the project.

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Project Management
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Project participants

• A total of 18 institutions from 14 Mediterranean
  Countries of which
• 9 Governmental institutions
• 2 International organizations
• 7 NGOs
• 9 Countries of the SEMR and 5 EU countries
• Some institutions have good experience in water
  and others in gender but few in both.

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List of participating institutions
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List of participating institutions
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Geographical location of participating
institutions
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Project management
The first Meeting of the GC took place in
September 2006
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Project management at national level
                                                 
           
 
National Coordinator
Gender-Water Team
National Web sìte
The National Central Focal Point and National
Communication network
Focal point for Governmental institutions  
Focal point for Non Governmental Organizations  
Focal point for International Organizations and
Donors
Focal point for Private Sector
Focal point for communication Communication
Media  
Focal point for the political sector
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The process of information collection and
dissemination

• The process of information collection is
  basically made of a mechanism of collecting
  information at field level and at regional level
  where information is collected analysed and
  integrated.
• The process of dissemination is in essence the
  reverse of that of information collection.
• The next diagram synthesize the processes

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